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Istat pro vs coconutbattery mac8/10/2023 This data contains browser type and version, operating system, the website from which an accessing system reaches this website, date and time of access. The provider of this website logs and saves data that is sent by your browser. However there was still draw on the battery due to the capture device, which means I couldn't do special event streams lasting longer than 8-9 hours, and I still feel that using battery power in conjunction with the power from the wall is cycling the battery and not good for it's lifespan or performance.This privacy policy covers how this website collects, uses, discloses, transfers and stores your information. This resulted in the power draw on the battery being less whilst streaming, which seems to confirm my theory. This should be sufficient based on my guestimate that each USB device is drawing 900ma at 5v and the hub itself handling data and ethernet would draw something similar. To combat this I have plugged the USB hub with my mic and webcam in with a 20 watt apple charger to provide power for those two devices and the hub itself which is doing the ethernet also, the hubs pass-through power port will power the hub and devices and Apples website confirmed that the laptop will look for the port providing the most power and ignore other powered connections. Hence it starts scavenging power from the battery. released) to stray over the 94 watts the laptop charger can supply. OK so after a bit of troubleshooting, I realised the devices plugged in (Brio Webcam, Mic and Elgato HD60s+) where drawing enough watts in combination with OBS's power consumption (which seems to be higher for me since 28. So power USB hubs and devices separately with device linked bellow.) (TLDR : OBS and Device power consumption = more than laptop charger provide. Potential solution pending tomorrows stream :P So the dock is only powering the capture cards and sending signal. Oh I also answered the question of whether I could use my factory charger in one port and not have the dock charge via the other port. I think I might just keep doing what I'm doing and once it drops another percent in overall capacity, I'll take it in to get replaced.Īnything that I might have missed? Just let me know. One side note is I contacted apple in regards to my Mac battery only being able to charge up to 80% of it's overall capacity and they told me once it drops below 80%, they'll replace it free with AppleCare. I'll also note anything else and let you all know. I'll keep running this for awhile just to make sure. So as of right now, I think this dock is the ticket! I appreciate everyone's help and input. coconut battery says it's charging with about 9 watts. Only like 90-110 vs the 300s like before. So that's really good! OBS is also using far less CPU percentage as well. I've been streaming for about 30 minutes and the overall charge has gone UP about 2-3 percent. As for the dock, I have 3 Magewell capture cards plugged in along with a laptop cooling fan plugged in as well. Also using studio mode and recording onto my desktop just because. I'm running a stress test right now that consists of live-streaming to YouTube from OBS with an external monitor. I ended up getting the OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock. Ok so I finally got the ok to buy one and it came today.
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